Here have we no continuing city

Heb 13:14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.


What city are we seeking to come?


Heb 11:10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.


Heb 11:16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.


Heb 12:22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels


Rev 3:12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.


Rev 21:10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
Rev 21:11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
Rev 21:12 And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
Rev 21:13 On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
Rev 21:14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
Rev 21:15 And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
Rev 21:16 And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
Rev 21:17 And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
Rev 21:18 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
Rev 21:19 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;
Rev 21:20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
Rev 21:21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
Rev 21:22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
Rev 21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Rev 21:24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
Rev 21:25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
Rev 21:26 And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.
Rev 21:27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.



12,000 furlongs = 7,920,000 feet 1,500 miles !


This city of God's is HUGE!


This city of God's REAL!


Heb 13:14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.


We might live on earth in city, but this earthly city will NOT continue! None of the cities on earth right now will continue. The only city we as God's children, as followers of our Lord and Savior, can look for and live for is the heavenly city that will one day come down out of heaven from God.


Truly we are NOT to live for this world, we are to live for heaven and the heavenly city there which we will dwell in and one day that heavenly city will come down to earth and we will live in an earth made new where sin no longer dwells. The devil will be destroyed forever and ever, never more to torment, never more to bring pain and anguish, heartache, and misery.


Right now we live in a world dominated by Satan and all the heartache he can bring and there will be NO changing this- we are strangers in a strange land, we are pilgrims on earth, we have NO continuing city, but we seek one to come! This is how we must live- in search of the heavenly city. When you are in search of something you are actively seeking it. When you are journeying you are ever moving forwards towards the end of that journey. We might not be moving from place to place constantly on the road, but we are on a spiritual journey and we MUST move onwards always. Our spiritual journey will take us to a real heavenly city, the city of God, and God who is Spirit dwells in that City.


We have NO continuing city here.
We DO seek a city to come.


Mat 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Mat 6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
Mat 6:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.


This ties in with our spiritual journey- having spiritual treasures. If we have spiritual treasures here and now that we lay up in heaven this proves we are looking for the reality of our spiritual home . We have to live spiritual lives, and our spiritual lives have to be dominant in our lives now. We have to feed our spiritual natures with spiritual food, we have to exercise our spiritual lives. We MUST live as if our spiritual nature is a REAL part of us and by the grace and mercy of our Savior we will live.


Amen!